a slightly  scarier way, since it reveals what it really costs in fuel to
cover ground....
is just calculate how many miles you get out of a dollar of fuel, regardless
of what type it is.

when fuel was 4,00 per gallon for regular, my 20 mpg turbo Volvo :
$ 4.00 goes 20 miles......
'miles per dollar' means divide the miles by the dollar amount of fuel.
20 divided by 4 equals 5 miles per dollar.
sounds terrible when you see expressed it that way.
With gas no being half that cost right now, , I'm up to 10 miles per dollar
these days.

my all time ever record is 23 miles per dollar in a 56 VW Bus in the 70's.,
I put 100 dollars in a envelope, and only purchased gas from that
stash........and drove 2,300 miles.

And so lucky we can still do this.
Gas price here in southern Oregon started shooting up all of a sudden, even
10 cents a gallon in one day.

From: "Roger Whittaker" <rogerwhitt1@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 11:00 PM
Subject: Re: What's your relative MPG?

> 30 is my relative MPG
>
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Chris S <szpejankowski@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> This is more for diesel drivers, Vanagon or otherwise.
>>
>> What is your MPG as it relates to the current cost of gas? In other
>> words, what kind of fuel consumption would a gasoline car have to
>> achieve to cost the same amount in fuel to drive?
>>
>> I put up a simple page here to help you calculate it:
>> http://www.knology.net/~vw/relative_mpg<http://www.knology.net/%7Evw/relative_mpg>
>>
>> As of now, at $2.49 diesel and $1.59 RUG, my Beetle TDI gets a
>> relative 29 MPG.   A Vanagon TDI might get 30 MPG but its current
>> relative MPG is 19.  As price of fuel fluctuates, so does your
>> relative MPG.  Back in May of 2006, my Beetle got relative 47 MPG.
>> :-)
>>
>> --
>> Chris S.
>> Disclaimer: "Death and serious injury may occur"
>>
>
>
>
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